• General Information
• Description
• Required Documents
• Translation
• Trip to Ukraine
• Facilitators
• Visiting NAC
• Visiting Orphanage
• Court Hearings
• Travel Documents for Your Child
• Post Adoption Procedures
• Adoption in Q&A
  • General Questions
  • Documents

Finally, you collect all the necessary paperwork and file it with the local Court in the city where the orphanage is located. The hearing can be scheduled within few days, but the judgment may include a 30-days waiting period provision to get finalized. Waiving such waiting period is a prerogative of a judge. At least one of the parents must attend the final hearings.

12. The adopter is required to personally take the child away from the place where he/she stays (resides), after having produced a copy of judgment granting him/her the adoption. /Abstract from Resolution of the Cabinet Of Ministers Of Ukraine # 1377 - On approval of the Procedure for registration of children who may be adopted, of the persons who wish to adopt a child, as well as for control of the respect for rights of the adopted children/